Sunday, February 25, 2024 – 6:00 PM EST
Nationwide Arena, Columbus, OH
TV: Bally Sports Ohio; Radio: 105.7 FM
Opponent’s Site: Blue Shirt Banter
New York Rangers (39-16-3, 81 points, 1st Metro, 1st East)
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Columbus Blue Jackets (18-27-10, 44 points, 8th Metro, 16th East)
The Blue Jackets will take on the league-best Rangers (in points percentage, at least) today. The Rags are currently on a 10-game win streak. They have outscored their opponents 41-19 in that stretch and have only given up 1 goal in each of their last 3 games.
Expect Alex Nylander to make his Columbus debut tonight. The Rangers beat the Flyers 2-1 just yesterday, so Blue Jackets’ legend Jonathan Quick should get the start.
Player to Watch
Johnny Gaudreau
After a bad first half of the season, Johnny has 1-14-15 in his last 14 games. There would be a couple more goals on that stat line if not for some bad luck. The Jackets will need Gaudreau to play his best game tonight if they hope to end the Rangers’ streak.
Season Series
10/14/23 NYR 3 @ CBJ 5
11/12/23 CBJ 3 @ NYR 4 (SO)
02/25/24 NYR @ CBJ
02/28/24 CBJ @ NYR
Stats
| New York | Columbus | |
| 3.34 (9) | GPG | 2.93 (20) |
| 2.71 (6) | GAPG | 3.70 (31) |
| 25.1 (6) | PP% | 14.3 (29) |
| 83.2 (4) | PK% | 76.4 (26) |
| 49.3 (20) | 5v5 Shot Attempt % | 48.0 (22) |
| 50.0 (19) | 5v5 Unblocked Shot Attempt % | 48.2 (21) |
| 8.50 (17) | 5v5 Shooting % | 9.45 (7) |
| 91.51 (12) | 5v5 Save % | 90.88 (22) |
| Artemi Panarin, 32 | G Leader | Boone Jenner, 18 |
| Artemi Panarin, 46 | A Leader | Johnny Gaudreau, 32 |
| Artemi Panarin, 78 | P Leader | Johnny Gaudreau, 40 |
| Vincent Trocheck, 47 | PIM Leader | Erik Gudbranson, 57 |
| 19-9-3 | Home/Road | 9-15-4 |
| 10-0-0 | Last 10 | 4-5-1 |
Projected Lines
Columbus Blue Jackets
| Johnny Gaudreau | Boone Jenner | Jack Roslovic |
| Yegor Chinakhov | Dmitri Voronkov | Kirill Marchenko |
| Kent Johnson | Cole Sillinger | Justin Danforth |
| Alexandre Texier | Sean Kuraly | Alex Nylander |
| Zach Werenski | Adam Boqvist |
| Ivan Provorov | Damon Severson |
| Jake Bean | Erik Gudbranson |
| Daniil Tarasov |
| Elvis Merzlikins |
New York Rangers
| Chris Kreider | Mika Zibanejad | Jimmy Vesey |
| Artemi Panarin | Vincent Trocheck | Alexis Lafreniere |
| Will Cuylle | Jonny Brodzinski | Kaapo Kakko |
| Adam Edstrom | Barclay Goodrow | Matthew Rempe |
| Ryan Lingren | Adam Fox |
| K’Andrew Miller | Jacob Trouba |
| Erik Gustafsson | Braden Schneider |
| Jonathan Quick |
| Igor Shesterkin |